Jeffrey Keefer said to me today: “You seem to have a large and wide network yourself. How do you foster that?”
The short answer to this is: “I actively seek out my network contacts and go where they go” or as Robert Scoble has said before: “I go where the conversations are.”
The longer explanation, as you might expect, is more involved that that.
Background
I’ve heard a couple of CCK08 students state that they had implemented Connectivism in practice long before they even knew what it was, or that it had a formal …

An interesting thought occurred to me while reading Jeffrey Keefer’s latest post at Silence and Voice (“The AIM of Social Media & Web 2.0“) that I’d like to explore here.
According to Barry Wellman’s “Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism” the whole notion of interrelationships, networks, and the role and place of the individual has been steadily morphing from the traditional neighborhood-based networks to one of “networked individualism.”
Wellman argues that
“…communities have changed from densely-knit “Little Boxes” (densely-knit, linking people door-to-door) to “Glocalized” networks (sparsely- knit but with clusters, linking households both …